Kopp Disclosure
(John 3:19-21)
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"I've always wanted to gather you together like a hen
with her baby chicks."
Jesus
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"God wants everybody to be saved."
Paul
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"A prophet's quarrel with the world is deep-down a
lover's quarrel.
If they didn't love the world, they probably wouldn't bother
to
tell it that it's going to hell. They'd just let it
go."
Frederick Buechner
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"The church is always trying to get other people to
reform.
It might not be a bad idea to reform itself
a little by way of example."
Mark Twain
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"Aside from Spiro Agnew coining the phrase which
is reason enough to doubt it,
assuming there is a silent majority of morality in America
and her churches
based on a heritage evolved from Holy Scripture proves the
aphoristic
conclusions about people who make such assumptions;
noting the
silent majority in America and her churches accommodates
and enables evil by not having the character and courage
to look up, stand up, speak up, and act up for Jesus."
Adamson
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Recently, someone
obsessed with trying to convince me to leave the PCUSA because it's
irretrievably apostate under current management as if leaving one stinking denomination for another
stinking denomination is remotely logical asked for the billionth
time, "Why do you stay?"
Uh, assuming, uh,
that I have changed my mind or my mind can be changed about what I have
been saying and writing about why I pray and try to remain faithfully for
a very, very, very long time, she/he, again, uh, assumed, uh, that I'm just
unaware of how irretrievably apostate under current management is the...
Geez.
Yes, I can be
persuaded if persuaded; but if I'm not persuaded by Holy Scripture and common
sense in a Lutheran
kinda way to confess and repent of my errors on praying and trying to remain
faithfully in a Biblically remnant kinda way, I'm not gonna be persuaded.
Yes, I am very
serious about the discipling and protective
responsibilities of undersheperding
in a Psalm 23 and Matthew 10:16 kinda way.
Yes, I believe it
is more courageous in a Joshua 1 and 24 kinda way to fight evil rather than run
from it; noting it is hard to look at the cross or read/hear about those martyr
voices and, uh, assume, uh, that that's for them and not me.
Buuuuuuut I think there
are some things that I've left out of my remnant theology for, uh, maybe, uh,
almost four decades that will be equally unpersuasive to those still seeking
sanctuary in illusion.
1. I'm staying
where He has planted me. Why would I leave one stinking denomination for
another stinking denomination and go through the bad stewardship of time and
energies to learn how they don't do things nearly as pure and perfectly as
anybody else when I'm already familiar with and know how to navigate within the
stink of mine?
2. I abandoned
churches in the past for egotistical reasons; and I've just decided that God
doesn't want me to abandon churches anymore for something/someone more, uh,
appealing, safe, or the like. Besides, if I split, well, uh, go to the
top quotes again.
3. Gotta confess
something. As I've grown closer to Jesus, especially since October 2011,
He has helped me to love everyone in an agape
kinda way that doesn't include abandoning them. He's even
helped me to like 'em.
They may hate me for being so salty about following Jesus by the book while
dissing their ideological idolatries, but I gotta love 'em while even liking
'em. Strange. Supernatural. Uh, spiritual.
Specifically, if I run away from the PCUSA, it's kinda like me saying to the
apostates or meanderings or just plain old ignorant pulpiteers and pewsitters,
"Go to hell!" Can't do that. Go back to those quotes
above. Read John 10.
4. Back in
October 2011 as part of my increasing rebirthing/conversion, I felt called,
more than ever before, to look up, stand up, speak up, and act up for
Jesus. While always eager for correction to confess and repent, I press on
with what I know about what it means to follow Jesus by the book until
corrected otherwise. That includes taking on other apostates like
Muslims, politicians, educators, clergy, and... The emperor and
his/her/its idolaters are naked and part of my call is to point that out.
5. O.K., I
confess not everyone is called to battle. I am. Finally, I'll
just admit it. I would prefer to get on my pony, ride in one direction,
and never come back. But I am called (beruf)
to put on the armor in an Ephesians 6 kinda way and fight not flee.
If any of the
preceding sounds arrogant, I understand.
I'm just really,
really, really confident in Jesus by the book.
I don't know
anyone or anything more divine than Him.
I don't know
anyone or anything other than Him who can save us.
While I may get
knocked off by some Islamonutball or denominational jingoist/idolater,
I figure it's better to side with Jesus by the book right now because
that's/He's the only thing/One that/who matters in the end.
Hmm.
I guess I really
do believe in Him in a Matthew 24:13 kinda way.
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Yeeeeeeet the song carries my
sentiments about folks who, like I used to before coming to Belvidere and
staying in Belvidere with a big thanks to October 2011 for that, are always
looking for the greener pastures that are others' brown fields.
Besides, I've
finally learned people will trust people who wanna stay with 'em even if they
don't agree on everything; conversely, if you're always looking for those
greener pastures and people know it, you've lost your credibility/facility for
having any influence among 'em.
School District
100 needs to think/pray about that.
Sorry about the regional example
Sooooooo, in the end, I'm
staying because I'm called to stay and wanna stay and...trust we're gonna be
neighbors anyway in the end.
Last time I
checked, John 3:16-17 and Acts 16:31 are infinitely more consequential than
those ideological litmus tests from the left and right.
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Blessings and Love!
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